Committee of Adjustment · Toronto
Variance odds
Planning a bigger house, an addition or a garden suite that needs a minor variance? See how the Committee of Adjustment decided similar applications near your lot: approvals, refusals and withdrawals in your ward and within 1 km, over the last 3 and 5 years.
38 Keewatin Ave, Toronto
Past decisions don't predict future ones; not a planning opinion. Counts of the City's recorded decisions on minor variance applications. With fewer than 10 decisions we say “too few decisions to estimate”.
| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 15, last 3 years | 380 | 93% | 89% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 8 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 103 | 94% | 91% | 3% | 5% | 1% | 8 weeks |
| Ward 15, last 5 years | 819 | 93% | 90% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 211 | 95% | 92% | 2% | 5% | <1% | 10 weeks |
Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.
| Category | Within 1 km | Approved | Ward 15 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 9 | too few decisions to estimate | 7 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building height | 12 | 100% | 14 | 100% |
| Lot coverage | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 22 | 95% | 33 | 91% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 2 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 0 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 2 | too few decisions to estimate | 20 | 75% |
The City publishes each application's purpose, not its list of variances. We count a category only when the purpose names it (“parking”, “lot coverage”, “side yard setback”). 183 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
5 of 200 approvals within 1 km in the last 5 years are recorded as conditional. The City's open data records whether a decision had conditions, not what they were; common ones are building to the submitted plans and arborist or engineering requirements. Read the decision for the file.
Nearest comparable decisions
- 38 Keewatin Ave · 0 m · Approved on 2023-04-13To enlarge the existing garage and construct an addition above the garage which will contain a residential unit. Plase note, this application was previouly deferred, June 20…File A0307/19NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2551 Yonge St · 110 m · Approved on 2024-07-04To construct 1 storey slab on grade rear addition to an existing ground floor retail unitFile A0287/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2490-2504 Yonge St · 140 m · Approved on 2024-06-20 · Building height, ParkingTo permit one additional residential floor (resulting in an overall height of 15-storeys) and associated variances to height, density, parking and amenity space, to the approved…File A0127/24NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 37 Sherwood Ave · 140 m · Approved on 2022-11-24To construct a shed/cabana in the rear yard.File A0629/22NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 2561 Yonge St · 150 m · Approved on 2025-10-23To alter the existing building by adding a rear second storey addition.File A0373/25NY: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre